Delta Air Traces Fires Worker Who Stole Passenger’s Headphones
A Delta Air Traces passenger tracked down the noise cancelling headphones he left on a flight at an worker’s home. The airline says the worker is now not working for them.
Mat Krantz left the headphones behind when he obtained off of a flight from Atlanta to Raleigh. He realized instantly that they have been nonetheless on board as quickly as he’d exited the jet bridge, however he wasn’t allowed again on board to retrieve them. He filed a report with the airline and airport, and he tracked the headphones with the assistance of an Apple AirTag which was hooked up to the headphones’ case.
The person anticipated the headphones to show up at misplaced and located, however the subsequent day they confirmed at… “a random residence in Raleigh.” His spouse talked him out of going to the house to confront the headphone thief, and he contacted police as an alternative.
“It moved in the course of the evening, proper once I would suppose a shift employee’s shift would finish when the airport closed,” Krantz stated. “So, my first thought was, ‘Oh, the cleansing crew in all probability took it residence with them.’”
Police went to the house the place the AirTag recognized the headphones as positioned – no warrant, the AirTag’s reporting could also be shut however not excellent – and so they knocked on the door. Trace: if police present up at your door with out a warrant, to seek for gadgets you’ve stolen, why are you letting them in?
“They knocked on the door and when the individual answered, they owned as much as the scenario and handed again my headphones,” Krantz stated.
In response to Delta, “the individual concerned within the incident now not works for” the airline.
AirTags helped a person watch his pockets journey to 35 cities on American Airways, displaying simply how poorly the airline cleans its planes (they didn’t credit score the passenger with the miles that his pockets flew). In the meantime one other American Airways passenger had his baggage stolen on the Miami airport and truly traveled to the thief’s residence for a confrontation. Don’t do this at residence, kids. In the meantime an Air Canada passenger used AirTags to find that the airline donated his baggage to charity.
(HT: Paul H)
